[Nut-upsuser] nut with Belkin "Active Battery Backup" UPS (BU30 series)

[Alexander I. Gordeev]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:56:38 +0300, Luis Angel Cofiño <nut at lacofi.org> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I bought a Belkin Active Battery Backup UPS too.
>
> I installed included WinPower software too, with a partial success: The agent
> starts and does his work, this is, it watches in background and starts a
> shutdown when power fails for ten minutes. But the GUI fails to start because
> different Java problems. And without this Java interface, any action the
> agent will do can't be monitored, and setup is not possible.
>
> I do not like WinPower. Nut is a best option. but I cannot make it working
> with nut with any drivers (belkin, belkinunv, usbhid-ups, megatec... well, I
> tried most of them without any success).
>
> Like davisc in another post, I've tried version 2.0.5 and 2.2.0 compiled in an
> updated Gentoo Linux system.
>
> The ouput of "usbhid-ups -DDDD -a belkin -u root -x explore -x
> vendorid=0665 -x productid=5161" is like davisc's one, or very closed. Like
> him, /dev/hiddev0 dissapears after run it, too.
>
> Output follows:
>
> [504] # /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -DDDD -a belkin -u root -x explore -x
> vendorid=0665 -x productid=5161 > ejecucion.txt
>
> debug level is '4'
> Checking device (03F0/1016) (010/003)
> - VendorID: 03f0
> - ProductID: 1016
> - Manufacturer: unknown
> - Product: unknown
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 010
> Trying to match device
> Device does not match - skipping
> Checking device (0000/0000) (010/001)
> - VendorID: 0000
> - ProductID: 0000
> - Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.22-kal uhci_hcd
> - Product: UHCI Host Controller
> - Serial Number: 0000:00:0b.1
> - Bus: 010
> Trying to match device
> Device does not match - skipping
> Checking device (0665/5161) (008/009)
> - VendorID: 0665
> - ProductID: 5161
> - Manufacturer: Cypress Semiconductor
> - Product: USB to Serial
> - Serial Number: unknown
> - Bus: 008
> Trying to match device
> Device matches
[snip]
>
> Ideas, anyone?
>

Please try megatec_usb driver and post back the results.
Could you also test version from svn trunk?

> ---
> Luis Angel Cofiño
> nut at lacofi.org
> Solo para sus ojos :-)
>



-- 
   Alexander